Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program
- Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Clinical Investigation
- M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management
- Internship and Residency: Duke Universiy Medical Center
- Post–doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Rheumatology
Dr. Gelber is a clinical investigator in musculoskeletal epidemiology. His research activity has addressed the incidence and risk factors of osteoarthritis in The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study, and the prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon and osteoarthritis in the African American community. Dr. Gelber has examined incident knee and hip osteoarthritis in the Meharry-Hopkins Study, a unique biracial cohort of black and white former medical students. In addition, he has initiated a home-based exercise intervention program for knee osteoarthritis in Sandtown-Winchester, an inner-city African American community located in Baltimore. In collaboration with fellows and faculty colleagues at Hopkins, Dr. Gelber has evaluated the clinical profile and autoantibody status of patient subsets in Sjogren’s syndrome, scleroderma and myositis.
